TORONTO — A professed failure to understand Bitcoin has not deterred KFC Canada from accepting the cryptocurrency as payment for a bucket of fried chicken. A limited-time marketing promotion for a “Bitcoin Bucket” was launched Thursday afternoon by the quick-serve restaurant chain — s...

If we are to believe author and technology guru Don Tapscott, the technology behind Bitcoin is about to unleash a revolution as big — or bigger — than the Internet itself. Executives in the financial services industry or any business served by it had better bone up on a new buzzword: ...

Banks were supposed to be frightened of Bitcoin. Last year, in a commentary for Fortune called “Why banks fear Bitcoin,” MIT business professor Trond Undheim wrote that “banks are afraid of Bitcoin because it would force them to innovate.” Information overload stymies Canada’s banks i...

Manulife Financial Corp., Canada’s largest life insurer, is poised to raise US$470 million in its second attempt at a Singapore initial public offering of its U.S. properties, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Manulife U.S. REIT plans to price its sale of 566 million u...

TORONTO — A report from Canada’s Senate says Ottawa should use a “light touch” when considering any regulation of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, to avoid stifling the growth of these new technologies. The report recommends that the federal government should employ “almost a han...